Gallery: Feb. 12, 2013: An Atlanta area power company crew near the scene of power line downed by freezing rain, sleet and snow.

David Tulis – AP

Gallery: Feb. 12, 2013: Emory University students walk through a residential neighborhood past downed power lines after a winter storm Atlanta. More than 175,000 residences and businesses statewide were without electricity.

Christine T. Nguyen – AP/The Herald Sun

Gallery: From left, Jason Kleiman, Jared Ballen and Detective Christin Reimann help push a car up a hill after the driver got stuck in snow on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014 in Durham, N.C.

Chuck Liddy

Gallery: Feb. 12, 2014: A motorist, right, who abandoned their vehicle, walks through stopped traffic on northbound Interstate 85 during a winter storm in Durham, N.C.

Steve Helber – AP

Gallery: Feb. 12, 2014: Snow falls overnight at the State Capitol in Richmond, Va. A winter storm is expected to dump several inches of snow and ice in the central Virginia region.

Jerry Wolford – AP/News & Record

Gallery: Feb. 12, 2014: Pedestrians support each other as walk during a snow storm in Greensboro, N.C. A winter storm warning lasting into Thursday has been issued for 95 of the state's 100 counties.

Dan Johnson, a Republican state lawmaker in Kentucky known for inflammatory Facebook posts comparing Barack and Michelle Obama to monkeys and who defiantly denied allegations that he sexually assaulted a teenage girl in the basement of his home, killed himself Wednesday night. He was 57.

A Florida mother on Wednesday was convicted for a third time of brutally abusing her toddler before fatally beating the boy who became known as "Baby Lollipops" in a case that riveted Miami decades ago.